QUEEN AMINAH admits that her people have become a faint whisper of the past, living constantly under the threat of discovery, tiptoeing through the land of the neighboring king. With the threat of discovery realized, she must now face the very man who could hold the lives of her people in his hands, and fight desperately not to hand him her heart. Within the forgotten northern borders of his kingdom, KING ERIC DE GAINES has no idea of the lost civilization that dwells upon his land. On an attempt to escape the every day trappings of royalty, he stumbles upon a tribe that dare to take him hostage, creating a powerful enemy. As he plots to seek revenge, he finds that treason runs far deeper than the ghosts at his door...or the woman who has begun to haunt his dreams.